Firefox Mouse Scroller Trick

September 2nd, 2004 Leave a comment Visited 238 times, 2 so far today

Surfing in Firefox with tabs, if you take the cursor to the tabs, and scroll the wheel… you can move between the tabs! Very cool…

Still Opera has me owned with rightclick and scroll mouse gesture to move between tabs…

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indi
November 16th, 2004 at 1:13 pm

This may be me-specific, but I love how I can open a link in a new tab by clicking with the scroll-wheel/middle button. It’s simple and it spares me have to right-click and go thru a menu.
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Percy
November 24th, 2004 at 11:52 pm

While the middle-click option in Firefox is nice, it still doesn’t compared with Opera’s “single window” set up. After having used Opera as my default browser for over a year, and now having switched to Firefox for basically all my Web surfing activities, Opera’s “single window” set up is the one thing I miss most about it.
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Brant
November 25th, 2004 at 4:41 am

You can have the right-click and scroll functionality in Firefox when the All-in-One Gestures extension is installed. It works great. The extensions are one of the best things about Firefox
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Cool
March 9th, 2005 at 3:15 am

The more I hear about Firefox, the more I consider changing over to it. It seems like I only hear good things about it.
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BJ
April 9th, 2005 at 2:58 am

LOVE FireFox!!!

Using MS Intellipoint Mouse, installed JAVA RunTime and all of a sudden I have lost the wheel to the mouse across ALL platforms.

Wassup with that? Can’t fix or find a fix. HELP!!!!!
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Wilson Tan
June 4th, 2005 at 8:46 am

If you use the All-In-One Gestures extension, you can right-click-scroll -up to cycle between tabs, right-click-scroll-down for history list…
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Richard Stokes
September 30th, 2005 at 5:15 am

FANTASTIC!!!!

I’ve been on IE for so long simply cause it was neat – all in windows, Used media player, Windows firewall etc… WHAT A FOOL!!! This is superb! I would buy this if it were for sale!
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joshua
December 7th, 2005 at 1:03 pm

There is a way to use single window mode in Firefox.
In the address bar, type about:config and scroll down to
browser.link.open_newwindow, double-click that, and in the box that pop-ups type in 3.
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Rush
January 21st, 2006 at 4:26 pm

Hehe.. yah, this is pretty neat, but the new FF 1.5 is a real resource hogger i must say!
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name
March 24th, 2006 at 5:39 pm

firefox “crtl + tab” to scroll tabs
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Jayant
April 24th, 2006 at 10:14 am

Doesnt seem to work for me..

i pointed my mouse to the tab and scrolled
i got the selector thing to the tab and scrolled, nothing happend

FF 1.5.02
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